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The island
of the Utopians is two hundred miles across in the middle part where it
is widest, and is nowhere much narrower than this except toward the two
ends. These ends, drawn toward one another as if in a five-hundred-mile
circle, make the island crescent-shaped like a new moon. Between the horns
of the crescent, which are about eleven miles apart, the sea enters and
spreads into a broad bay. Being sheltered from the wind by the surrounding
land, the bay is never rough, but quiet and smooth instead, like a big
lake. Thus, nearly the whole inner coast is one great harbor, across which
ships pass in every direction to the great advantage of the people. —Thomas
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